If you ask the likes of Sony chief Jim Ryan or Xbox boss Phil Spencer what a games console is, you’d get a plethora of answers. They’re miracle machines, they’re entertainment systems, they’re a core component of millions of homes, and a centrepiece of living rooms all around the world. They’re not just games consoles, they’re music players, streaming boxes, internet browsers. They’re whatever you want them to be. Here’s the thing though - they’re toys. That’s all they are. They are childish plastic boxes that let us have fun. It’s for that reason that the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Wii, 15 years y𝓀oung today, is the greatest console of all time.

‘Which console is the best ever?’ is a contentious issue, but it doesn’t need to be. It’s the Nintendo Wii. Case closed. My case for the Nintendo Wii is completely different to my case for the other consoles I love, and that’s why the Wii is so special. When it comes to the Xbox 360, the PS2, the SNES, or the Game Boy, my reasoning is very simple. Those consoles (or handheld, whatever) had great games. They are machines to play games on, so having more good games makes them more gooder. By most metrics, I think the Xbox One was a better machine than the PS4, but the PS4 has 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us, Spider-Man, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:God of War, and Horizon💝 Zero Dawn, so it&🍬rsquo;s a better console.

Related: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:A𓆏fter New Pokemon Snap, We Nee♛d New PokeParkThings aren’t so simple with the Wii. Wii Sports is one of the best sports games ever, but after that, you&r𓄧squo;re not really left with much, are you? It’s a bunch of shit party games, a decent but not outstanding Mario Kart, and a divisive, experimental Zelda title. It doesn’t boast the exclusives of the SNES or the PS2. It doesn’t even boast the exclusives of the Dreamcast. But I love the Wii for one simple reason - one reason none of the other consoles in existence can claim. My mam and dad like it.

Mario Kart Wii Cover

I love my mam and dad. I’d never say that to them - Christ, I’d never hear the end of it - but I do. When I was a little kid, I got a PS1 for Christmas. If that makes you feel old, sorry, and if that makes you think I’m old, fuck yo✤u. I had it set up on the big telly, and I൩ played it all Christmas Day, and Boxing Day, and right through until my birthday a few days later, before it was eventually taken upstairs to my room. Same with the PS2. By the time the Xbox 360 rolled around, my position as ‘the cute one’ had been usurped by my younger sister, and I instead had to play the 360 on a small, portable CRT shoved away to the side of the room.

I’ve always played games, but as I got older it was indulged by my parents less.That all changed with the Nintendo Wii. That ‘bunch of shit party games’? They’re the reason the Wii is the best ever. One of them, creativel♋y named Wii Party, just asked you to hide the Wii remotes. That was it. No one else in my family played games, and I was a hormonal teenager confused about, well, everything, and we ended up playing that hide and seek game about 50 times. My dad played Wii Fit every day for three years, dispute never playing any other game for more than three minutes. Everyone in my house reached the Pro rank in Bowling, Baseball, and Tennis.

When Christmas rolled around, my mam would go through the Argos cat💫alogue and circle all the Wii games that looked interesting, then check out the reviews online - this is the same woman who asked if Spyro the Dragon was a Pokemon.

Wii Sports

The Wii is the only console that understands on a fundamental level that games consoles are toys. Not tech, but toys. 🎃They’re the only one your granny can play. T🉐he games don’t have the obvious legacies of other exclusives, but they understand that games are supposed to be fun. That is their one and only brief, and they deliver.

It’s not as easy as it looks, either. PlayStation experimented with the Ey♋eToy and PlayStation Move, and they never really got off the ground. Xbox chased hard with the Kinect and it ultimately failed. Even the Switch doesn’t capture the magic of the Wii in this way. Modern consoles like to sell themselves as magic makers, giving you the 4Kiest, raytraciest, most-triangleist visuals ever. No amount of pixels can come close to hiding the Wii remote inside the sofa cushions and watch your family stress out as the two minute timer ticks down.

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